“Writing Religious Lives”

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Here are my tweets.  This was a great panel.  It inspired me to write religious biography again.

Read from the bottom in order to see the Tweets in chronological order.  For more about the panel click here.  For responses, retweets, and favorites check out #oah2014 or @johnfea1

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    9:11 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Does the religious historian cast evaluative judgment on his/her subjects even if they come to believe the subject was a fraud?
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    9:03 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details Flag media

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    Wheeler: What role does “empathy” play in writing religious lives. For my take on this see
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    9:02 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Wheeler concludes she is not suited to write a “trade book.” To much imagery is needed. Calls herself a “cultural Protestant”
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    9:00 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Wheeler: Lawrence’s paper reminds us that we need to write with “novelistic texture,” but how is that done?
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    8:57 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Wheeler offers sympathy to Rick Pointer’s Johan Papunhank project. Great project, but sources limited. Affirms his approach.
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    8:55 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Wheeler commenting. Presenters are writing something akin to microhistorical biography. How the subject illuminate larger trends
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    8:53 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Hayes: How does the biographer distinguish Johnny Cash the “actual person” from Cash the public figure
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    8:52 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Hayes: Biography helps us to bring some order to religious belief, a subject that is often like nailing jelly to wall.
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    8:50 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Hayes discussing religious dimensions of Johnny Cash-Rick Rubin. Parted with Cash’s ’70s evangelicalism and ’80s Xtian Right
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    8:48 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Hayes: Johnny Cash was the Youth for Christ Man of the Year in 1979. Published a novel about St. Paul called “The Man in White”
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    8:46 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    John Hayes is up. Talking about his work on writing the religious life of Johnny Cash.
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    8:40 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Paddison’s figure (named “Harris” but didn’t get 1st name) is fascinating. Would like to hear more on how to write religious lives.
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    8:30 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Joshua Paddison of Wittenburg University talking about writing microhistory of a 19th-century spiritual seeker.
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    8:29 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Lawrence: Writing biography is a bounded exercise (life of the subject), But subject’s spirituality explodes those boundaries
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    8:25 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Lawrence: Be careful about casting Jarena Lee as a forward-looking proto-feminist hero.
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    8:24 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Lawrence: Novel writing helped her understand how Jarena Lee’s travels influenced her understanding of womahood and motherhood @oah2014
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    8:21 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Lawrence’s novel writing on Jarena Lee helped her give dramatic shape to her biography of Lee.
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    8:19 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Lawrence: Jarena Lee was the 1st A-A female preacher. Lawrence started her work on Lee by trying to write a novel about her.
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    8:16 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Anna Lawrence of Fairfield University is up. She is writing a history of Jarena Lee.
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    8:16 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Pointer gives shout out to the untapped resources of the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem.
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    8:14 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Pointer: Most Papunhank stuff is in German script. For Pointer this requires translation, which means $ and funding.
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    8:13 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Pointer: We may see through a glass darkly on Papunhank, but still enough material to go on.
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    8:11 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Pointer: We should not shy away from writing biographies just because we only have info on a PART of the subject’s life.
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    8:09 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Why write about Papunhank? Scholarship is better and provides more context for his life.
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    8:07 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Rick just gave my 2014 AHA paper on American Presbyterians in the 1750s and 1760s a shout-out. Thanks!
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    8:05 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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     2h
    Rick Pointer of Westmont College is up. Talking about writing about Munsee Indian John Papunhank
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    8:01 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Wheeler introduces herself.
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    7:59 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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    Rachel Wheeler introducing the panel: “Writing Religious Lives”
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    7:59 AM – 11 Apr 2014 · Details

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     2h
    Live Tweeting OAH Session: “Writing Religious Lives”: Chair and Commentator: Rachel Wheeler (Indiana Universit…

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